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Today, more than a billion individuals, both adults and children, worldwide are obese 3 , with 110 million obese people in the US alone 4
Established adverse effects included nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, gallbladder disease, acute kidney injury and reduced bowel motility
To address potential confounding factors, investigators also performed a propensity-matched analysis pairing GLP-1 users and non-users based on age, race, ethnicity, body mass index, breast density, and diabetes status
A1C refers to a blood test that measures average blood sugar levels over the previous two to three months